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The aim of the Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science is to publish original research articles and reviews in the general field of behavioural and brain function. Articles dealing with the neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of behavior are especially welcomed. Multidisciplinary contributions from all fields of t…
Ichiro Ashida, Yozo Miyaoka
An inexpensive stimulation system for recording eye-blink responses elicited by taste stimuli has been developed using a manually controlled syringe and tasimetric sensor. The system requires neither an intra-oral device nor clamping of the head and tongue fo…
Mohammad-Hossein Biglu, Mostafa Ghavami, Sahar Dadashpour
Library anxiety is an unpleasant feeling that is experienced in a library location; it has behavioral, psychological, emotional and cognitive effect, which can be harmful for students’ academic career. The purpose of current study was to investigate the relat…
Sarah Wolter, Aleksandra Petrovic, Henning Vieker, Tobias Melcher, Sarah Trost, Esther Kristina Diekhof, Anja Richter, David Zilles, Oliver Gruber
Schizophrenia patients have difficulties in focusing their attention, when distracting information must be ignored. Although it is adaptive in some situations to monitor the background for potentially relevant changes to a certain degree, voluntary attentiona…
Mark A. Robbins, Catherine L. Ryan, Tracy A. Doucette
The clinical presentation of schizophrenia involves a variety of symptoms, which in many cases include hallucinations and delusions. Experimentally revealed alterations in both pre-pulse inhibition (PPI) and latent inhibition (LI) are also apparent in individ…
Joshua D. Halonen, Phillip R. Zoladz, Collin R. Park, David M. Diamond, 1 1
Shock, immobilization, and exposure to predator-related stimuli have all been used to study fear conditioning in rodents, but they have never been used in conjunction in a single study. Experiment 1 compared the effects of these three reinforcers, alone and i…
Mahsa Amiri, Mehdi Rabiei, Vahid Donyavi
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness training in enhancing executive function and decreasing symptoms of depression and anxiety in multiple sclerosis patients. The population in this study consisted of people with…
Søren Ballegaard, Natasha Bergmann, Benny Karpatschof, Jesper Kristiansen, Finn Gyntelberg, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Per Bech, Åke Hjalmarson, Jens Faber
Background: Depression and ischemic heart disease (IHD) are associated with persistent stress and autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction. The former can be measured by pressure pain sensitivity (PPS) of the sternum, and the latter by the PPS and systolic…
Emiko Imai, Yoshitada Katagiri, Hiroshi Hosaka, Kiyoshi Itao
Hyperthermia-induced decline in cognitive performance is a moderate complication that poses challenges to the maintenance of safety. Although the underlying mechanism can be attributed to the disruption of brain networks, the propensity remains unclear. This…
Elizabeth Pozos-Radillo, Lourdes Preciado-Serrano, Ana Plascencia-Campos, Luis Zaragoza-Perales
Immigration-related stress is the result of an environment that imposes demands surpassing the psychological resources of those suffering from it with a destabilizing effect on their physical and psychological health. The purpose of this study is to determine…
Md. Sahab Uddin, Abdullah Al Mamun, Md. Asaduzzaman
In terms of advancement of life to meet the challenges new method for neuropsychopharmacological research are continually developing to ensure superior safety, accuracy, efficacy, precision etc. In this experiment, we suggested and validated two neuropsychoph…
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